A review by cdjdhj
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

5.0

I have had this book on my "to read" stack for a while. I was unsure of reading it and thought it might be negative and depressing. To the contrary, I found it to be an interesting testament to the resilience of children and family, even with deeply flawed and dysfunctional parents. Jeannette Walls' memoir of her childhood and family is at once stark, gritty and real, but also tender and compassionate. It is clear that for all of their faults, her parents loved each other and their children, and the children, in turn felt love and loyalty toward their brilliant, yet peculiar and neglectful parents. The book is an intensely interesting look into one American family with bonds of love that somehow survived the addiction, neglect and irresponsibility of the adults while the children took the parental role and somehow kept it all together. Definitely worth reading